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  2. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...

  3. List of Spanish words of Nahuatl origin - Wikipedia

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    Documented Nahuatl words in the Spanish language (mostly as spoken in Mexico and Mesoamerica), also called Nahuatlismos include an extensive list of words that represent (i) animals, (ii) plants, fruit and vegetables, (iii) foods and beverages, and (iv) domestic appliances. Many of these words end with the absolutive suffix "-tl" in Nahuatl.

  4. Scrabble letter distributions - Wikipedia

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    N R T: O: A I: E 2 G: D: 3 B C M P: 4 F H V W Y: 5 K: 8 J X: 10 Q Z: ... (such as "ñ" in words borrowed from Spanish) ... and loanwords containing K and W are simply ...

  5. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1][2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form. This list includes only homographs that are written precisely ...

  6. List of Spanish words of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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    Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages. Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language. Some words contain non-Germanic elements (see béisbol in the Middle English section). Any form with an asterisk (*) is unattested and therefore ...

  7. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    In the diphthong [ej], e.g. in the words peine [ˈpɛjne] 'comb' and rey [ˈrɛj] king; Mid back vowel /o/ The close allophone is phonetically close-mid , and appears in open syllables, e.g. in the word como [ˈkomo] 'how' The open allophone is phonetically open-mid , and appears: In closed syllables, e.g. in the word con [kɔn] 'with'

  8. List of Spanish words of various origins - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Spanish words of various origins. It includes words from Australian Aboriginal languages, Balti, Berber, Caló, Czech, Dravidian languages, Egyptian, Greek, Hungarian, Ligurian, Mongolian, Persian, Slavic (such as Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, and Croatian). Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other ...

  9. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    from Spanish chile, from Nahuatl chilli. chipotle. from Spanish, smoked jalapeño, from Nahuatl chilpoctli. chocolate. from Spanish chocolate, from Nahuatl xocolatl meaning "hot water" or from a combination of the Mayan word chocol meaning "hot" and the Nahuatl word atl meaning "water."